Absolutely, but somehow I don't think PapaG reported the minister to the FBI. Guess that makes him an accomplice to child abuse?
I'm not a religious person, but I have plenty of tolerance for people who are. You know, guys like Martin Luther King Jr., who some are suggesting the world would be better off without. Point being there's the bad (you'll go to hell!) and the good (civil rights).
Well, we had a poster in this forum who suggested that the world would be better off if Christians were exterminated. That is pretty messed up. I have no issue with people who don't believe, but when they suggest that those of us who do should be wiped out, that is pretty messed up. What if we said that all Muslims should be exterminated? That would be hate mongering. What if we said the world would be better off without Black people? That would be hate mongering. What is the difference?
What if he's correct, and the world WOULD be better off without people who allow myths to guide their actions in real life? Personally, I think that's true, and eventually inevitable, but education will bring it about, not genocide.
Mosque. Church. It matters not. They are basically the same thing. When a Church gets burned down, the Christians get pissed. When a Mosque gets burned down, the Muslim get pissed. When will I start getting pissed? When they burn down something that matters, like the Rose Garden.
When something gets "burned down", Society should get pissed. Last I checked, arson was a crime in most states. But amazingly enough, because there's a religious component, you can burn them down without hasoos getting pissed. Don't touch the Rose Garden, though. Or Kells, since that's a pretty good pub. Or Lloyd Center, b/c sometimes I shop there. Or schools, b/c we educate our kids about the myths of Darwinism and Global Warming there. But then again, if I tell my kids about the Bible, I'm a child abuser. Kind of random for people who don't allow myths to guide their life. If societal laws don't guide their life and morality, and they don't believe in living according to "myths", then what does?
Yeah, it really seems that people are close-minded to religion. Its sad, because we are in the 21st century now, and in America.
Whats wrong? God not there to keep the Church from burning down? Or was he too busy out creating Tsunami's which kill 200,000 people in a shot.
What's your point? Are you saying that you now believe with me that when it's your time, it's your time? God's sovereign in it all. If you choose to try to understand what His plan is, good luck with that. If you're saying God created the tsunami, I'll go along with that. I believe He also created the people that died in it. You're more that welcome to continue to believe you have some way to sovereignly control your own life and death, but that fallacy has been disproven since the beginning of time. Pride makes you think you're worth something. Evolution tells us that we're nothing more than a collection of slightly-changed dogs or monkeys, which were only slightly-changed from the previous iteration, etc. How can you be worth anything? And who cares if you or 200000 other people die? Or a church burns down? You're taking bits and pieces from differing philosophies to create something that makes you believe you're special. You're not, and neither am I--apart from what we were created to be. And it doesn't seem like you want to acknowledge that, so that's "what's wrong". At least to me
